Pur comprendendone i motivi, peraltro non condivisi, non riesco a realizzare le ragione per cui una parte di alessandrini si ostina ad esternare gioia e soddisfazione per l'abbattimento del ponte Cittadella.
Infatti, il sentimento che dovrebbe pervadere tutti noi non è il gioire nel vedere crollare un'altra fetta di memoria civica, ma piuttosto la pena per aver subìto una cocente sconfitta.
La sconfitta della ragione, dal momento che sono trascorsi inutilmente quindici anni e dei lavori di messa in sicurezza dell'intera asta del Tanaro ancora non si parla.
Quindici anni in cui tutto si è detto ma poco si è fatto per mettere
"veramente" in sicurezza le città rivierasche del Tanaro that, let's not forget ever, has claimed many innocent victims and others could do with it.
This is not to impute liability to the river that does not in itself, but those responsibilities, however, I feel compelled to criticize those who, for various reasons (reasons that after fifteen years do not justify any more) has done nothing to change a permanent state of danger. The
Tanaro, in his long career, upstream of Cuneo and down again, to Alba, Asti and then cross before reaching Alexandria, in those terrible days of November 94, he did mess of things, animals and human lives. In
then said that the main cause is the abandonment of the mountain by man, with the result of depriving the mountain and necessary maintenance of ditches and canals.
Streams, so left to themselves, collect the runoff of the mountain. And what is collected on its way to the valley are often abandoned debris of rotting tree trunks or branches blown down, to form natural dams which then give way under pressure from persistent rushing downstream in a violent and unstoppable. One problem
era, and the fundamental solution would be to create two funds to expansion upstream of Asti and Alba, and a third before Alexandria, just to collect that excess water that from time to time, the Tanaro issue in his race to the Po
Here So why do I speak of defeat. A crushing defeat of the institutions should ensure that the course of the river, in addition to the defeat of the provinces and municipalities of Cuneo, Alba, Asti and Alessandria
, which together have not been able to become romanocentrica Administration with the necessary authority, letting the Usually, comfortable, convenient speech "too expensive"! A
scofitta which produced, after fifteen years, only a feeble palliative; Citadel demolish the bridge while leaving intact the risk of falling again overwhelmed by the fury of Tanaro, which seems almost to mock the inability and the stupidity of man.